Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
United States Space Program Photographs and Ephemera, late 20th century, includes Titan I-III and Gemini Space Launch Systems "Fact Sheets for Press"; forty Martin Marietta Space and Missile Program press photos; typed "Manned Space Flight Report" presented to Congress March 26, 1962, by D. Brainerd Holmes; "Manned Space Flight Report Attachments to Text"; and a photograph of a 1972 press conference announcing an operational space shuttle by 1980.
Provenance: The collection of Frederic and Jean Sharf.
Estimate $75-125
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Keywords
Martin Marietta, Frederic Sharf, Jean SharfJonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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